Self Portrait: August 25, 2011

These are a few of my paintings that I photographed and digitally smushed together. With traditional painting I have a problem with developing contrast, finding that pieces are either low contrast and middle tone or low contrast and very dark. For some reason when I put them into photoshop though I can fix that. Conceptually I know what I want to do but usually in the practice I fail a bit, since photoshop basically asks me what I want and then does it for me I get the result I'm looking for most of the time. Now if I can learn to talk to paint this semester I'll be very happy.

Self Portrait: August 24, 2011

Felt like scribbling and didn't have a mirror. About halfway through it started looking more like a lady, but still.

Self Portrait: August 23, 2011

Today I drew on my leg with some of my scrap markers. Most of my stuff was packed away; my leg makes a wonderful canvas. There isn't much in the way of technique here but I have to share something, for some reason drawing on flesh feels really nice. It's so receptive to pressure and whatnot. Very nice...

Self Portrait: August 22, 2011

The more of these that I do the more I tend to get bored with frontal portraits. With this one I dripped acrylic paint onto a plastic panel and then scratched it off and drew on it. I also feel really weird talking to no one... no one but myself... I feel kind of pretentious too. Maybe I need to be MORE PRETENTIOUS!

Self Portrait: August 21, 2011

Feel like drawing I did not. Draw a face into a styrofoam cup I did. Photograph it well I did not.

Portrait: August 20, 2011

I spent most of this day doing quick figure studies. I didn't really feel like intensely drawing, besides scribbling can be very refreshing.

Renaissance Men #2 - George Washington

Materials: Ink

What I had for dinner: Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce

I sort of started designing them after real people to...sort of.

Renaissance Men #1

Materials: Ink

What I had for dinner: Beet Salad with Balsamic Vinegar

The process of this was sort of that I just pressed the paper into the plate that until recently contained my dinner, creating all the areas of color. I then outlined these regions and ultimately began deviating for outline and composing without much reference to the stains. I learned that faces are actually really easy to make out of virtually any shape, especially if you go a little abstract with it.

Self Portrait: August 19, 2011

I was told today that I should try writing about my pictures instead of just randomly posting them with no rhyme or reason. So... I'm going to work on that... sometime... in the future.

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